{"id":333639,"date":"2026-07-08T22:08:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T22:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/333639\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T22:08:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T22:08:10","slug":"port-jax-launching-two-spec-warehouses-its-11th-and-12th-buildings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/333639\/","title":{"rendered":"Port Jax launching two spec warehouses, its 11th and 12th buildings"},"content":{"rendered":"

Port Jax Trade Center\u2019s developer is preparing for the 11th\u00a0and 12th\u00a0speculative warehouses in the North Jacksonville business center, which completes the park until the developer buys more land nearby.<\/p>\n

Port Jax Trade Center is east of Alta Drive and west of Interstate 295, north of Zoo Parkway, which also is Heckscher Drive.<\/p>\n

The structures are at 10350 Alta Road, across the street from Port Jax Trade Center but part of the industrial park.<\/p>\n

The two buildings total 82,000 square feet designed to serve smaller businesses, said developer Bill Spinner, who leads Spinner Construction LLC and Jax Green Industrial, a full-service real estate development company.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The two buildings total 82,000 square feet designed to serve smaller businesses. Developer Bill Spinner expects to break ground in November for completion in June 2027.<\/p>\n

Jax Green Industrial<\/p>\n

\u201cWe should break ground in November depending on permits,\u201d he said by email July 8. He expects completion in June 2027.<\/p>\n

Building 1100 is designed at 50,000 square feet and Building 1200 is 32,000 square feet.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Spinner said Building 1100 could accommodate up to 11 tenants and Building 1200 could accommodate seven.<\/p>\n

That works out to about 4,500 square feet in each unit, although Spinner said the market will dictate whether tenants will lease one or several bays.<\/p>\n

He estimates an investment of $12 million for the two buildings.<\/p>\n

Jacksonville-based Zinn Architecture + Interiors Inc. is the architect.<\/p>\n

\u201cIndustrial buildings are becoming better looking all the time, and these are some of my favorites,\u201d Spinner said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Spinner cited the higher corner wall elevations, curved steel canopies at the entries and differing heights of the tilt-wall panels.<\/p>\n

He said the project also has a large truck court and parking as well as electrical services to attract manufacturing companies. \u00a0<\/p>\n

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Bill Spinner cited the higher corner wall elevations, curved steel canopies at the entries and differing heights of the tilt-wall panels as attractive to tenants.<\/p>\n

Jax Green Industrial<\/p>\n

The 43-acre Port Jax park is inside and south of the Interstate-295 beltway between two access points onto the interstate from Alta Drive and New Berlin Road. It is a mile from the Jacksonville Port Authority Blount Island Marine Terminal.<\/p>\n

Port Jax Trade Center comprises 10 completed buildings of about 570,000 square feet. Spinner said they are 100% leased.<\/p>\n

Tenants include Lockheed Martin, W&O Supply, Belfor USA Group, Assa Abloy, Motion Industries and Austin Hose.<\/p>\n

Building 1100 was planned at 102,000 square feet, but Spinner said the market changed and big-box facilities \u201chad a lot of vacancy so we went back to our roots and built this project on the same land for smaller businesses.\u201d<\/p>\n

Spinner said the market has millions of industrial square feet of space to absorb in the next three to four years.<\/p>\n

A tenant needing 50,000 square feet of space may have more than 30 property choices, he said. \u201cIt is a large-tenant market right now.\u201d<\/p>\n

Buildings 1100 and 1200 will complete Port Jax\u2019s 650,000 square feet of buildings on about 45 acres. Spinner estimates an $85 million total investment in Port Jax.<\/p>\n

Spinner said he started the project in 2009 with site development and a spec building.<\/p>\n

\"Port<\/p>\n

Port Jax Trade Center is east of Alta Drive and west of Interstate 295, north of Zoo Parkway, which also is Heckscher Drive.<\/p>\n

Jax Green Industrial<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was rough going economically for a few years after the start until lower interest rates spurred growth again,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Since 1992, Jax Green Industrial has developed more than $480 million in properties comprising about 3.15 million square feet of office, flex industrial and heavy industrial commercial buildings.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Spinner said July 8 his group is buying more land near Port Jax but did not elaborate.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are in negotiations. We are going to develop and build more of the same industrial type buildings,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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